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Hi,
This is the first time I've used InDesign, and I have experienced a pretty big problem the night before I'm to send it to print.
I'm using CS5 and when I went to export it, I chose some simple options I read
Standard - PDF/X-4:2008
Compatibility - Acrobat 5 (PDF 1.4)
I made a couple more adjustments and when it went to a pdf, there are 4 pages missing a couple pictures and a few pages of font.
I couldn't figure it out, so I decided to just pull my fonts and pictures and try again but it won't let me.
It shows all the font layers and the pictures, but you can't see anything or select them. The confusing thing is that in one circumstance, half the article is gone. I tried to delete the font layers, and pull it down again from the previous page, but it won't work either, it gives me an error of over set text.
Does anyone know what in the world happened? It was ready for print one minute after months of work, then, kablooey!!
when it was finished exporting it gave me an error that stated something about 1 error with background
Can anyone help me?

guitchick17 wrote:
when it was finished exporting it gave me an error that stated something about 1 error with background
Sounds like you are having trouble withthe background export (new to CS5, and a little buggy inthe initial release). Have you updated to 7.0.4? If not, do that and try again, then post back with the result.

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